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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[cotton 
Query . Is this author identical with William Floyer 
Cornish, author of An Essay on Uses ( 1825 ), An Essay 
on the Doctrine of Remainders ( 1827 ), and A Treatise on 
Purchase Dues ( 1828 ) ? He had a son of the same name, 
Rector of Winterbourne Abbas, Dorset. 
1837. [Anonymous.] Observations | on the | Habits | of | Exotic Birds ; 
| that is, | those which visit England in the Spring | and retire 
in the Autumn, | and those which appear in the Autumn | and 
disappear in the Spring. Exeter : j published by W. Curson, 
High Street : | and Whittaker and Co., London. | — | 1837. 
Collation — 1 vol. 16mo. Cover title, pp. iv + pp. 79. 
Cotton (John), oh. ca . 1850 
All that we can discover of this writer is that he was 
elected a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London in 
December 1829 , that he then lived at Bognor, but removed 
eventually to Barnstaple, and resigned his Fellowship in 
October 1841 . He appears to have subsequently gone to 
Australia, for in the Tasmanian Journal of Natural Science 
(iii., 1849 , pp. 361 - 5 ) we find an item by John Cotton com- 
prising “ A List of Birds which frequent the upper portion 
of the River Goulburn, in the district of Port Philip, New 
South Wales.” That he died in the early ’fifties is shown by 
the reference to “ the late ” on the title-page of Beautiful 
Birds cited below. His Song Birds , of which only a few copies 
were printed for private circulation, is a work of the utmost 
rarity in its complete state, and is moreover much esteemed 
for the fidelity and beauty of its life-size hand-coloured plates, 
drawn by the author, who also compiled the text “ from 
various authors.” 
1835. The Kesident | Song Birds | of Great Britain ; | containing | 
delineations of Seventeen Birds | of the size of life, | together 
with the egg of each species, | with | a short account of their 
general habits, and occasional | directions for their treatment in 
confinement. | By John Cotton, F.Z.S. | London : | mdcccxxxv. 
Collation — 2 pts. roy. 8vo, with 17 and 16 col. pi. and descriptive 
text (unpaged). Privately printed, 1835. 
Note .- — The title is from pt. i. ; in pt. ii. the word “ resident ” is 
omitted, and there are sixteen instead of seventeen birds ; both 
parts have a title-page, Coues being in error as to pt. ii. 
